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Best for readers who enjoy dark YA dystopian sci-fi romance with engineered soldiers, forbidden attachment, military secrets, and rebellion.
CREATED
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Teen + Young Adult · Genetic Engineering
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Genetically engineered to kill without emotion, a young Creation and her twin brother are sent to a military base ahead of schedule, where a spreading infection and her forbidden attraction to a soldier named Marc threaten their survival. Best for readers who enjoy dark YA dystopian sci-fi romance with engineered soldiers, forbidden attachment, military secrets, and rebellion.
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SHE WASN'T BORN TO REBEL.
SHE WAS MADE TO DESTROY ANYONE WHO DID.
They tell me that I can't feel.
They're wrong. I'm learning.
It started with a soldier who wasn't afraid of what they made me. Now I want him, and wanting anything for myself could get us both killed.
I am a Creation. Genetically engineered, conditioned to suppress emotion, and trained to kill without question. My twin brother, Lukahn, and I exist for their war. We were built to heal each other by latching. Skin to skin, palm to palm. We can't survive without each other. Rank is how we both live. And if we're going to stay alive, we have to be the best.
I've killed for them. I've put a bullet through a Creation who hesitated, and I didn't feel anything. That's what I was made for.
The real test comes with Separation, when the government finally claims the lives it created. We are ready.
We are not ready for Separation to come early. Or for the newcomer who ruptures my senses before I even learn his name.
They drag us to a military base before we turn eighteen. Inside, every sign of weakness is watched. Outside, something is spreading. It doesn't move like anything human. It doesn't stop when it should. The vaccines meant to protect us from it might be the very thing that exposes what I am.
Then I meet Marc.
A soldier who doesn't look at me like a weapon waiting for orders, or like my brother's missing half. He touches me like he's not supposed to. A hand at my waist. A thumb against my chin. He looks at me like he can see the nightmares I don't want to have. He takes them away, the way Lukahn does. I shouldn't let him get this close. My brother would kill him if he knew.
I tell myself I'll stay away. I run the drills. I take the rank. I don't look at him.
I look at him.
Near Marc, the silence I was trained to live inside begins to break. A pulse. A flaw. Curiosity. Attachment. Want.
I look up "want" in the archive. The definition is wrong. None of the words for it are right. It isn't supposed to apply to me.
That kind of deviation doesn't get you a trial. It gets you a muzzle to the skull and a trigger pull, and the compound moves on before the body's cold.
I'm the one behind the barrel.
Outside, the infection keeps spreading closer. Inside, our training intensifies, our orders change, and the truth behind why Separation came early may lie with the invaders.
I should be preparing for war. Watching my brother's back. Keeping my hands off Marc. But Lukahn and I have spent our lives keeping each other alive, and I'm beginning to wonder if I'll be the reason he dies.
I was built to destroy rebels.
And now I'm becoming one.
CREATED is Book One of the completed Separation Trilogy: dark YA dystopian sci-fi romance with engineered soldiers, forbidden attachment, and the alien truth behind the war they were created to fight.
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A good pick for readers who want science-driven suspense about biotechnology and the ethical questions surrounding genetic ownership.
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Sci-Fi · Thriller · Genetic Engineering · Speculative Fiction · Techno-Thriller
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Scientists, corporations, and families become entangled in genetic engineering and disputes over who owns human DNA. A good pick for readers who want science-driven suspense about biotechnology and the ethical questions surrounding genetic ownership.
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From Michael Crichton, the #1 bestselling author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, comes a devilishly clever, breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and genetic ownership shatters our assumptions.
Welcome to our genetic world.
Fast, furious, and out of control.
This is not the world of the future—it's the world right now.
Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blonds becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only four hundred genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction—is it worse than the disease?
We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time when one-fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else—and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes....
The future is closer than you think.
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Best for readers who like military sci-fi, ancient mysteries, alien threats, and fast-moving action.
Ruins of the Earth
Sci-Fi · Genetic Engineering
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A Marine Raider’s final mission before retirement sends him to Antarctica, where researchers uncover an ancient secret that opens a portal and unleashes a violent threat against Earth, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 3,600 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like military sci-fi, ancient mysteries, alien threats, and fast-moving action.
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A secret buried in the Antarctic.
A puzzle unsolved for thousands of years. And a Brooklyn-born Master Gunnery Sergeant who's royally pissed that he has to babysit the researchers sent to figure it all out.
Patrick "Wic" Finnegan's last op as a Marine Raider before retirement sends him to the frozen Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands. The only reason he's here? He owes a favor to an old friend—but that doesn't mean he has to like it. When Wic finally sees what the team has uncovered, he can't believe his eyes, nor is he prepared for the violence to come.
Soon, the portal opens and unleashes a storm of unbridled fury upon humanity. From the Antarctic tundra to the streets of Manhattan, Wic and his team will be pushed to their limits as they fight to hold back Earth's ultimate threat.
The odds are against them. Governments are toppling. And the Earth is falling into ruin.
Join bestselling authors Christopher Hopper and J.N. Chaney on what readers call a "non-stop, break-neck thrill ride into metaspace." For fans of District 9, Expeditionary Force, and Galaxy's Edge, this is one military sci-fi thriller you won't be able to put down, and the official prequel to the hit series Ruins of the Galaxy.
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A strong match for readers drawn to hard science fiction, outbreak stories, genetic engineering, political tension, and near-future dystopian stakes.
Immunity Index
Dystopian · Genetic Engineering · Hard Sci-Fi
Our take
An Amazon Best of the Month pick, Immunity Index follows three young women in a near-future US shaped by food shortages, inequality, and authoritarian rule as they discover their shared genetic origins while a deadly virus spreads, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 100 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to hard science fiction, outbreak stories, genetic engineering, political tension, and near-future dystopian stakes.
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Sue Burke, author of Semiosis and Interference, gives readers a new near-future, hard sf novel. Immunity Index blends Orphan Black with Contagion in a terrifying outbreak scenario.
Bustle's 40 Best New Books May 2021
Amazon Best of the Month May 2021
In a US facing growing food shortages, stark inequality, and a growing fascist government, three perfectly normal young women are about to find out that they share a great deal in common.
Their creator, the gifted geneticist Peng, made them that way—before such things were outlawed.
Rumors of a virus make their way through an unprotected population on the verge of rebellion, only to have it turn deadly.
As the women fight to stay alive and help, Peng races to find a cure—and the cover up behind the virus.
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Good for readers who like hard science fiction about evolution, epidemiology, government cover-ups, and human survival.
Darwin’s Radio
Sci-Fi · Genetic Engineering · Hard Sci-Fi
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Nebula Award winner and Hugo Award finalist Darwin’s Radio is a Hugo Award nominee about a prehistoric disease reawakening in human DNA, as scientists race to solve the mystery behind a deadly epidemic targeting pregnant women, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 1,100 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like hard science fiction about evolution, epidemiology, government cover-ups, and human survival.
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HUGO AWARD FINALIST • “WOW! What a splendid (scary) notion: a human upgrade! What a superb plot! Darwin's Radio is bloody damned good.”—Anne McCaffrey
“Virus hunter” Christopher Dicken is a man on a mission, following a trail of rumors, government cover-ups, and dead bodies around the globe in search of a mysterious disease that strikes only pregnant women and invariably results in miscarriage. But when Dicken finds what he’s looking for, the answer proves to be stranger—and far deadlier—than he ever could have imagined. Something that has slept in human DNA for millions of years is waking up.
Molecular biologist Kaye Lang has spent her career tracing ancient retroviruses in the human genome. She believes these microscopic fossils can come to life again. But when Dicken’s discovery becomes public, Lang’s theory suddenly turns to chilling fact. As the outbreak of this terrifying disease threatens to become a deadly epidemic, Dicken and Lang must race against time to assemble the pieces of a puzzle only they are equipped to solve—an evolutionary puzzle that will determine the future of the human race . . . if a future exists at all.
Praise for Darwin’s Radio
“Bear is one of our very best, and most innovative, speculative writers.”—New York Daily News
“Superb . . . Bear's novel is frighteningly believable with a lot of clearly explained hard science, but the personal struggles of the well-realized characters keep everything on a human level.”—Focus
“Bear is a writer of passionate vision.”—Locus
“Darwin’s Radio scores a high rating on the thrill monitor.”—Birmingham Post (England)
“Absorbing and ingenious.”—Kirkus Reviews
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Good for readers who want dark sci-fi about infection, survival, and forced evolution.
Clay’s Ark
Dystopian · Thriller · Genetic Engineering · Suspense
Our take
Blake Maslin and his teenage twin daughters are ambushed in an alternate America and taken to an isolated compound where a contagious alien disease has transformed its carriers into powerful, dangerous outcasts. Clay’s Ark follows their fight to escape, warn the world, or accept a new reality that could change humanity’s future, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 1,000 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want dark sci-fi about infection, survival, and forced evolution.
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From the acclaimed author of the Earthseed series, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together and changing the destiny of the human race.
Blake Maslin is traveling with his teenage twin daughters through an alternate America marked by volatile class warfare when their car is ambushed. Their attackers appear sickly yet possess inhuman strength, and they transport Blake's family to an isolated compound. There, the three captives discover that the compound's residents have a highly contagious alien disease that has mutated their DNA to make them powerful, dangerous, and compelled to infect others.
If Blake and his daughters do not escape, they will be infected with a virus that will either kill them outright or transform them into outcasts whose very existence is a threat to the world around them.
In the following hours, Blake and his daughters must make a vital choice: risk everything to escape and warn the rest of the world, or accept their new reality—as well as the uncertain fate of the human race.
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For readers who like military science fiction with undercover missions, alien occupation, and resistance warfare.
Blackcollar
Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · Genetic Engineering · Space Opera
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A resistance fighter infiltrates an alien-controlled government, seeking legendary guerrilla warriors to overthrow the invaders. In Blackcollar, Allen Caine’s mission depends on finding Plinry’s elusive blackcollars before the operation collapses, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 400 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like military science fiction with undercover missions, alien occupation, and resistance warfare.
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A genetically enhanced fighting force may be humanity's only hope in this novel by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Star Wars: Thrawn.
Decades after a successful invasion of Earth and the Terran Democratic Empire by the Ryqril—hostile, leathery-skinned aliens—resistance fighter Allen Caine is training for an undercover mission. He will assume the identity of an aide to the senate—part of the government that colludes with the invaders. But when the mission begins earlier than planned, Caine finds himself stuck on the off-planet outpost of Plinry with no idea of what awaits. He's responsible for the most important mission undertaken by the resistance in twenty years, and when the operation goes awry, Caine's only hope is to locate Plinry's so-called blackcollars—the elusive, martial arts–trained guerilla force whose wartime resistance efforts are legendary. With his life and the freedom of everyone in the TDE on the line, Caine's success will depend on whether or not he can find them. . . .
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At ninety-four, Mia Ziemann has already lived through a future where technology has made long life possible, comfortable, and deeply boring.
Holy Fire
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia · Genetic Engineering
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At ninety-four, Mia Ziemann has already lived through a future where technology has made long life possible, comfortable, and deeply boring. After a radical treatment restores her body and mind to youth, Holy Fire sends her into a strange post-human world of art, desire, designer drugs, and reinvention. Rated 4.1 on Amazon and 3.7 on Goodreads, with praise from Wired and Publishers Weekly.
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Memory, morality, and immortality merge in this "haunting and lyrical triumph" from the bestselling author of Schismatrix Plus (Time).
In the late twenty-first century, technology has lengthened lifespans far beyond what was once medically possible. Existence itself has become relatively easy—if boring. In this futuristic paradise, ninety-four-year-old Mia Ziemann longs for something different and undergoes a radical new treatment that restores both her body and mind to that of a twenty-year-old. After her dramatic transformation, Mia finds herself lost in an avant-garde world of passion, designer drugs, and creative expression . . .
"Ideas—big ideas—lurk beneath Mia's romp through Sterling's delightfully imagined newly post-human Earth. Art, artifice, the pursuit of immortality, and youth and aging bounce around the story, the characters, and their conversations in imaginative, engaging fashion. . . . In the end, Holy Fire is one of the most interesting, imaginative, and subtly humorous—and relevant for it—novels the cyberpunk/post-human era has produced. . . . Holy Fire may very well be [Sterling's] best work." —Speculiction
"An intellectual feat, it is also a treat for the spirit and the senses." —Wired
"A patented Sterling extra-special." —Newsday
"The future Sterling traces is plausible and provocative, particularly his consideration of several contrasting cultures, and of the disenfranchised who are unable to become 'post-human.' Those interested in serious speculative conversation set within a very strange near-future will find this much to their taste." —Publishers Weekly
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Midnight turns a quiet California town into a place where the familiar begins to feel dangerously wrong.
Midnight
Sci-Fi · Horror · Genetic Engineering · Suspense
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Midnight turns a quiet California town into a place where the familiar begins to feel dangerously wrong. In Moonlight Cove, residents are changing in ways that strip away emotion or unleash violent instinct, leaving a handful of survivors to uncover what’s happening before fear gives way to slaughter. This is suspense-driven horror built around paranoia, isolation, and the terror of watching humanity come undone.
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Dean Koontz, the bestselling master of suspense, invites you into the shocking world of Moonlight Cove—where four unlikely survivors confront the darkest realms of human nature.
The citizens of Moonlight Cove, California, are changing. Some are losing touch with their deepest emotions. Others are surrendering to their wildest urges. And the few who remain unchanged are absolutely terrified—if not brutally murdered in the dead of night...
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Memory becomes a survival problem when a girl wakes with violent hunger and no understanding of what she is.
Fledgling
Sci-Fi · Genetic Engineering · Speculative Fiction
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Memory becomes a survival problem when a girl wakes with violent hunger and no understanding of what she is. In Fledgling, Octavia E. Butler follows an amnesiac vampire forced to uncover her stolen past, her altered biology, and the enemies still hunting her. This speculative vampire novel examines identity, otherness, power, and humanity through a story shaped by danger and discovery.
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Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted—and still wants—to destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human.
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Good for readers who like medical thrillers, parasite horror, and near-future science fiction with outbreak stakes.
Symbiont
Dystopian · Thriller · Genetic Engineering
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In a world where tapeworms were designed to cure diseases, they instead turn on their hosts, creating a ravenous horde. Sal and her companions must uncover the tapeworms' sinister plan and find a way to stop them before it's too late. Symbiont has a 4.3-star rating from more than 1,100 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like medical thrillers, parasite horror, and near-future science fiction with outbreak stakes.
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From New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes the second book in the terrifying Parasitology series.
The SymboGen-designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning them into a ravenous horde.
Now those who do not appear to be afflicted are being gathered for quarantine as panic spreads, but Sal and her companions must discover how the tapeworms are taking over their hosts, what their eventual goal is, and how they can be stopped.
"A riveting near-future medical thriller that reads like the genetically-engineered love child of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton." —John Joseph Adams on Parasite
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It fits readers who want classic sci-fi with big ideas, far-future mystery, and a sense of awe that still hits.
The City and the Stars
Sci-Fi · Genetic Engineering · Space Colonization
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A billion years in the future, humanity has traded wonder for safety, and one dangerously curious boy is about to ruin that arrangement. In The City and the Stars, Alvin begins asking questions no one in Diaspar wants answered, setting off a search for the truth about his city, his species, and what became of the stars they once conquered. It fits readers who want classic sci-fi with big ideas, far-future mystery, and a sense of awe that still hits.
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This grand space adventure explores the fate of humanity a billion years in the future— A visionary classic by one of science fiction's greatest minds.
Far in the future, Earth's oceans have evaporated and humanity has all but vanished. The inhabitants of Diaspar believe their domed city is all that remains of an empire that had once conquered the stars. Inside the dome, the citizens live in technological splendor, free from the distractions of aging and disease. Everything is controlled precisely, just as the city's designers had intended.
But a boy named Alvin, unlike his fellow humans, shows an insatiable—and dangerous—curiosity about the world outside the dome. His questions will send him on a quest to discover the truth about the city and humanity's history—as well as its future.
A masterful and awe-inspiring work of imagination, The City and the Stars is considered one of Arthur C. Clarke's finest novels.
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